Clearly, this isn’t working for us but we’re willing to listen to a rebuttal. Here’s what we don’t love: the color, for one. Obviously, it’s meant to look like she’s naked and wrapped in flowers, but we hate that kind of dress generally. It always looks like an ice-skating costume. We also don’t love the proportions here, at least on her. It looks too high-necked, with too short a skirt and the sleeve makes it look heavy on one side. It’s just not working in any way for us. Not a bad dress, but not her dress. We suppose we could have made this a Girl, That’s Not Your Dress post, but like we said, we’re open to a rebuttal. Let’s hear it.

Thank you!! Leave it alone indeed. And stop dressing like a figure skater. OUT

schadenfreudelicious

she gets a 3.5 from the Canadian judge……

LilyPad

Yep, total figure skater. She’s too classy for this one I think.

TheOriginalLulu

Honestly. What I wouldn’t give to have a face like that and she’s ruining it. *cries*

ballerinawithagun

I couldn’t believe it was her. Out!

Knightley

Thank you! I was wondering if it was just me… She definitely looks like she’s trying too hard.

AudreysMom

sigh. I have to agree. I was at first impressed by how incredible her body looks and understood her reason to flaunt it, but this is just a tad desperate. Surely there’s something in Salma Hayek’s closet she could borrow.

I didn’t even recognize her. Seriously, I’m stunned. Wow. WHAT DID SHE DO TO HER FACE??

Mary_Shelley

You are so right, Deedles. She has that “I look like everyone who’s gone under the knife in Hollywood” look. What a shame.

Chickadeep

She used to be genuinely stunning, and now it looks like some unholy, Botox-saturated hybrid of Teri Hatcher and Leann Rimes snatched Sophia Vergara’s wig and raided Melanie Griffith’s closet, to predictably underwhelming effect.

lordandtaylor

I think he looks like the current version of Victorial Principle. How you seen her latest info-mercial. SCARY INDEED.

I honestly would have had no idea this was her had I not been told. Unreal.

dharmabum8

Completely unrecognizable. Why, Cat, WHY.

blogless

You know, I think she looks pretty natural. I mean she’s had Botox (who hasn’t) and she may have had some filler – but I don’t think she looks that different, just older. I think she looks beautiful. (But OUT because of that dress.)

Train wreck. OUT in a very large way. Too short, too pale, too wierd, too ice skating costume, too ugly, I can’t stop myself. Just no.
And she needs to lose about 6 inches off her hair.

Flooby

Oh I think her hair in the back is the ONLY great thing she’s got going for her. It’s really wonderful and shiny and healthy looking. If she’d had more height at the crown I’d say her hairdo at least was an IN.

Out to the most far flung of OUTNESS. Can you say, “Girl You Are Trying Too Hard”? Mkay, we get that you’re gorgeous, and have a slammin’ hot bod. We’ll take it as a given. Now would you please not dress like a dance extra from a bad 50’s musical?

Chickadeep

We need a “Girl, You Are Trying Too Hard” category, for those occasions when “Girl, That’s Not Your Dress” isn’t quite right.

Oh, I hate to say it, but she’s too old for this sort of dress. It’s the sort of dress I’d love to see Dakota Fanning try, but just no on Mrs. Zeta-Jones. It really is painful to say it, but Out.

amf0001

in the photo where she is looking over her shoulder, she looks like herself, but in the first few photos I really would not have recognised her, the work she’s had done has completely changed her round her eyes.
Her hair and make up are fab but that dress is old and it makes her look oddly old too… Completely out!

I don’t like the one long sleeve look. It just feel unbalanced. I just always imagine some crazy weird accident happened and somehow that arm of the dress was ripped off…it helps me cope. I don’t hate the dress overall, I mean it is certainly not amazing but she doesn’t necessarily look bad in it. Honestly though, it just needs another sleeve. Yay continuity and balance!

Love her shoes though (:

Lizzyisi

It’s too short and too lopsided. She needed an updo with the dress and a pair of shoes that don’t scream “ballroom dance competition on your local PBS station”. Otherwise, the “naked wrapped in flowers” thing isn’t such a bad look for her.

petalfrog

It’s awful. The color makes her look washed out and not like the lovely olive tone I believe she is. Also, it’s too short, and she looks old, not sexy.

unbornfawn

OUT. There is nothing to rebutt. You nailed it. This isn’t her dress.

jw_ny

OUT..should have been a “girl that’s not your dress” post.

Just goes to prove that even the most beautiful women in the world can’t wear everything and still look good.

I can tell I’ve been reading you guys for a long while now and can nearly predict the verbiage below the picture. I’m in complete agreement with you on every single detail. She’s also a little too old to carry off a skimpy item like this. Honestly, woman, you’re not 25 anymore.

SapphoPoet

I don’t think I would have recognized her without the caption. She doesn’t look like herself at all. Oh, and the dress is terrible. OUT.

CZJ still looks amazing, however it appears that she needs a makeunder. She used to have such an elegant but sexy look. Too much hair, too much makeup (especially the gloppy mascara), too little color and too little dress. I know she’s had some diificult times recently and I’m rooting that she gets her mojo back!

Did she coat her body in glue and roll around on the floor, picking up shed skin and party favors? Because that kind of effort should be applauded. Otherwise, OUT.

deathandthestrawberry

She is giving Jessica Castain the running for most tragic use of illusion netting. OUT.

charlotte

If your first thought is “Oh my God, what happened?”, this must be an OUT.

golspie

She’s had work done to her face. Sloppy, amateurish work.

Kyle Crawford

I saw this the other day.. I think the problem is that the ” flesh” fabric, what ever it is, is too heavy.. wrinkly… I do think it is a good on paper dress.

Erin Fleming

I thought she rocked the dress… until you called it an ice skating costume and now I can’t even look at it. Unfortunately her hiatus from mortal vision included plastic surgery that removed what was special about her beauty. Now she just looks like every brunette actress.

Elizabetta1022

In those last few pictures she looks like Marie Osmond. Just weird. Recently, my best friend’s cousin had some work done. She was a beautiful, natural woman and now she looks like a clone of one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. So sad!

Elizabetta1022

And OUT, by the way. Definitely not the dress for her.

crash1212

There is no rebuttal. This is OUT for all the reasons you state. I would add that it’s WAY too short on her…and further, I don’t think this is anybody’s dress…not in this color and not with that neckline and sleeve combo.

OUT–all i could see was “ice skating costume.” will she go for the triple toe loop or the lutz?

jmorino08

I am too distracted by how that face looks nothing like the original face of CZJ. But if you put a gun to my head I’d have to give it a big no, too. It’s oddly both too young-looking and too old-looking for her and the color is really unflattering to her skin tone.

I KNOW her skin tone is lovely normally. I know because I’ve seen her in OTHER photographs. But did she make herself up to look sickly? Or is it just that the awful color of that dress is making her look sick?

Usually scroll-down fugly doesn’t get fugly until at least the waist. When it starts at the neck you know you have a ginormous problem. At the first pic I held out hope that some fiend had photoshopped Catherine’s gorgeous head onto the body of some tacky starlet, but subsequent pics killed that dream.

Out. No, no, no. Ice skating costume is the first thing I thought of when I saw the pic.

Warmheartedgirl Seattle

OUT. Good lord, that woman has had too much stuff injected into her forehead and around her mouth. She can barely smile anymore! And the dress is just too young for her, despite her killer body and great legs. I like her shoes, though.

How the mighty fall. She use to be a natural and stunning beauty like what? five years ago? what happened? surgery? some botched procedure? smh and what about her career? lawd ham mercy. I cannot, I will and I definitely shall not.

Jennifer Coleman

VERY ice skatery. Or she was in one of those girl fights where the other girl rips off part of her skirt.

OUT.

TieDye64

Nothing good to see here. OUT.

RedRaven617

Ugh. Out.

Lina_bee

Out. The dress doesn’t suit her. There are more flattering dresses with which to show off your awesome legs. Re her face: I didn’t recognize her either, but she’s been out of the public eye for a good four years or so now, and the last appearance I remember she was plastered in pancake makeup. She looks her age, which is rare enough in Hollywood, but I do wonder what work she may have had done.

Qitkat

I think she looks older than 42, but she has had a very challenging set of circumstances that would age anyone. I just wish the work weren’t so heavy-handed, as she has always been quite beautiful.

This is starting to look like a landslide out, too bad, but it’s not anyone’s dress. Maybe since, as you said, she’s been mostly out of the public eye, she really wanted to be noticed and feel pretty, and hot. Understandable.

Lina_bee

Well, yes, nothing ages a woman like raising kids and caregiving for people with chronic serious ailments. She’s still beautiful, and people will get used to what she looks like now if only she keeps stepping out for the cameras.

kirkyo

This would be ok if it was from her own JC Penny’s line or something like that. You know where you have to pretend you look hot in something cheap that you supposedly designed.

From the front angle, her face looks like Jennifer Grey after her nose job. Strange.

Poorly stitched dress. Unflattering.

OUT

Funkykatt

This movie looks like complete garbage but I like the various wigs, I will have to see it

kikisayshi

OUT. If it was any other color (all ONE color) I would like it. Maybe a jewel tone to compliment her fair skin and dark hair. But this: no.

KathKo

Okay, that… Thing needs to be burned. like, right now.
… And I don’t necessarely means Catherine, there ;p.

judybrowni

The “nude” effect of the dress is lost when it doesn’t match her skin tone, for one.

But, basically, this dress is bipolar-off-medication, in fabric.

It’s not successful plastic surgery, in my opinion, if she now only looks like Catherine Zeta Jones from certain angles.

call_me_schmeg

girl, that is kim kardashian’s dress and on her, it would still be OUT.

kimmeister

I actually don’t hate the dress, but the wonky T-straps on her shoes are driving me nuts!

ZnSD

ugh! Oh! kill it with fire! the dress I mean.

Sara__B

Out. One of the world’s most beautiful women should NOT look desperate for attention. (And as others have already asked, what has she done to her face? Such a shame.)

belfebe

Girl, that is not your dress. Ship it to JLo who will work the crap out of it.

lordandtaylor

Looks like Stars on Ice (presented by Smuckers) is coming to town early this year.
OUT.
Dress your age. Some young stalet from high school musical could carry it off. But this soccer mom cannot. It is bordering on just looking sad on her. Or comical. You choose.

MarissaLG

OUT. The color isn’t right for her, and even if it was I’m not sure this dress would work- it doesn’t fit!!

Candigirl1968

This is a Jessica Chastain sort of mistake. CZJ knows better.

marilyn

Out. She is beautiful, but this dress sucks the color out of her skin. I can understand why she wore this, since the movie being premiered is an edgy rock-type movie. But………the color is wrong, so it makes ALL OF HER look pasty-colored. As you said, it is very costume-y. She is a gorgeous woman and should always wear important clothes. This is a costume. It is beneath her.

SO out. That is not a flattering dress, and probably wouldn’t be on anybody.

LittleKarnak

Are we sure that’s CZJ??? Something just looks….off….about her face….

AnaRoW

I was just about to ask the exact same thing. Something’s way off.

EEKstl

OUT. Both sides needed to be sleeveless and it needed to be a bit longer for serious IN consideration. Also, it’s so wrong that one of the world’s most beautiful women is succumbing to Refreshment. And not in a good way.

Qitkat

ooh, out.
Agreed w/other BK’s- did not recognize her. Pity.

Call me Bee

Oh yikes! This is no one’s dress, and Ms Z-JD should have stuck with her usual, more elegant look. Trying to go so “edgy” at her age is not pretty. OUT.

Patricia Gillett

Oh Cathy, no. Unless you’re aiming to win gold for Mother Russia in ice dance, this is not your dress.

Also, you’re a beautiful woman, please ease up on the botox so your forehead unfreezes.

Great hair, though, but not enough to save this from being an OUT.

holdmewhileimnaked

i think her bio takes ten years off her age. i’ve always thought that. this dress adds them back on, & then some.

ThaliaMenninger

This is an Igor dress, if Igor were a girl, or if he had a taste for frocks. This would be perfect to ring Dr. Frankenstein’s bell in, and we would all say how brave and strong it was of Igor to decide that his hump was a feature he wanted to emphasize rather than hide away.

Out. It’s just Not Her Dress – but I might like it on someone else. I like the style overall. I would have liked it better in a different color of nude. And I think the black is too heavy. But mostly, I think it makes her look old. She’s not a whispy-sylph like creature, and this dress emphasizes that fact.

phrenk

Blergh, OUT.

Susan Crawford

No to the dress. Just a really wrong choice in every way.

alyce1213

Horrible dress.
Botoxed face.
CZJ where are you?

Charmella

Desperate…and O-U-T!

CassieLee22

nooooooooooo OUT

another_laura

Out, oh my dear lords in heaven, OUT. She should never wear anything other than jewel tones…. gaaaaaaah!

another_laura

Geez, kittens, do we need to pile on so much about cosmetic work? It’s a fact of life for 99% of actors, yes, even the gorgeous ones.

alyce1213

Cosmetic work is fair game, ESPECIALLY for the gorgeous ones whose faces become unrecognizable. Bad clothes you can change; you ruin a face, you ruin a career. I think it should be loudly and frequently discouraged.

plinkiedoodle

OUT! A figure skater who won’t leave her face alone…You were lovely before you went and messed it all up.

PaulaBerman

It’s out, and why don’t I even recognize her? She doesn’t look like herself anymore.

berkeleygirl

HORRIBLE!!! Also, I refuse to believe she’s only 42.

quiltrx

OUT. It’s a hair too formal to be sexy/rocker, and way too slutty to be elegant. And the color is just off-putting.

And what has she done to herself??? The only shot where this actually appears to be CZJ is the one over her shoulder. The rest appear to be Jaclyn Smith…who is fabulous, but is not CZJ.

OUT. It’s not only a questionable dress on its own, it’s dreadfully unflattering on her.

JCornforth

Wrong color for her & way too short.

guest2visits

The one sleeve made the dress tacky for me. It’s probably a couple of inches too short for Catherine also.
The dress looks like a strange shade of grey, not nude.

PeaceBang

This was a stab in the heart. The stunning CZJ in a tacky Wilma skating dress cut up the *there* — are you KIDDING me? She of the regal bearing and ability to werq an evening gown like no one’s business? With that bizarre reconstruction of her bone structure? Oh, sad sad sad I has a BIG sad. Is her plastic surgeon trying to turn her into Angie Harmon or something? Also, no way that lady is 42. She’s 50 if she’s a day.

Renaissance_Man_ATL

No No No, CZJ! OUT!!!

AllegraS

ouch! age complete “diss” appropriate. So she has legs – most of us do too – and a bit too much of them are showing. You are right, the proportions are all wrong and the dress is wearing her.

Looks like Poison Ivy’s night gown with the twiney viney thing going on

up with pod people

I am giving her an In because SHE looks so radiant and happy — clearly she loves the dress and loves how she looks, and since it doesn’t vex me one way or the other, she and her amazing fucking hair and glowing skin get the thumbs up.

nancylee61

I think she looks haggard. Look at that third picture of her. She looks tired. And just like I just noted about Charlize Theron, smoking has taken its toll on her face.

ChaquitaPhilly

OooooNooooo!!!!!! What is with these creepy crawly vine covered dresses all of a sudden. I thought the transparent lace fad was bad but these are SO MUCH WORSE!
Beyond OUT is OUT-est?

agree with Brittany a few comments down: a more ladylike look suits her better. This smells of desperation and not knowing who she is. Why the plastics? Why the mini? You used to dress like classy lady.